RegistrationRegistration is restricted to US military and sworn law enforcement personnel.

Tuition/FeesThere is no cost to attend this course.

Course DescriptionThe primary purposes of Highway Drug Investigations are to detect, interdict, and disrupt the continual flow of illicit drugs on the nation’s highways. It is where the struggle for superiority of the nation’s highways takes place; a contest between uniformed police officers and the most prolific and dangerous illicit drug traffickers in the world (i.e., Transnational Drug Trafficking Organizations). Emphasis is placed on Mexican drug trafficking organizations, the smuggling routes, transportation corridors, and distribution networks in the United States. Confronting the threat to national security, highway drug interdiction operatives stand as the vanguard in the nation’s second line of defense against those who would export illicit activity, lawlessness, violence, and corruption into the country.

Moreover, comprehensive post-interdiction investigative methods and techniques are emphasized in order to further identify and debilitate ongoing illicit drug-trafficking schemes that have a nexus to highway drug interdiction stops (e.g., conspiracy investigations, government controlled deliveries of contraband, and other investigative methodologies designed to advance a criminal investigation).

Topics Included

Modus operandi of drug trafficking organizations

Detection of drug-laden vehicles

Weapons trafficking

Vehicular contraband concealment

Gathering of strategic drug intelligence

Bulk currency seizures and investigations

Effective strategies designed to disrupt the use of the nation’s highway as a delivery/profit gaining system for illicit drugs and weapons

Course LengthHighway Drug Investigations is a 3 Day (24 Hour) course.

PrerequisitesThere are no prerequisites to attend Highway Drug Investigations.